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philthepat said:
This mornings 'what the hell are you singing, dad?!' from Robbie this morning... I need to educate him better on 80s ballads lol

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I remember this song. It's a good one. I don't remember them having other singles, so probably a one-hit wonder, which the 80's had lots of.
 
I hope you enjoy the Jarren Jarren Duran Duran show in January, fromcal!
 
Idunno. This R.E.M. back-up guitarist needs to keep his day job. He ain't ever makin' it as a singer!

 
Oh... my... Dog! I just love doing a little EweToobular surfing. Sometimes you never know what you will find.

 
HarpoSF said:
Oh... my... Dog! I just love doing a little EweToobular surfing. Sometimes you never know what you will find.

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Bloody hell, she's amazing :oops:

Naturally after hearing that... I looked up more of her stuff... I bet Peter Gabriel would be a big fan of this cover

 
I am a big fan of PMJ, anyway. Scott Bradlee always has some great female singers highlighted.

This is another fun one (and another hot blonde singer).

 
What's better on a Sunday than a little Rock-and/or-Roll history? (Well, other than NFL games, that is.)

This is one of Mott the Hoople's biggest hits and it was gifted to/written for them by none other than David Robert Jones (some of you may know him better as David Bonie, of course). David Bonie even sings backup on the song.

 
David Bonie even recorded his own studio version of the song. It was never released as a single at the time, though. This is one of those times where I actually prefer the cover/original version from Mott the Hoople better than the writer/singer's version. (Much like Jimi Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower" vs little Robbie Zimmerman's original version.)

 
(Yeah, so maybe I am bored this morning... )

Here is an age old (well, I am at an old age and always wondered about it) musical question:
What came first the chick or the egg, man?

In late 1967 the Rock-and/or-Roll music scene had two songs from two very popular groups that had similar sounding refrains. You may never have heard of either of these groups, but, trust me, when I was a little kid they got a little airplay on the AM radio. The first group was two kids from New York calling themselves “Garfinkle & Solomon” (or something close ‘nuff) and the second group were some Scousers that didn’t even last as a group into the 70’s. (So, you know they musta been a buncha hacks.)

In “Mrs. Robinson” Artie and Paulie sing the nonsensical phrase "Koo-koo-kachoo". (Additionally, they mention Dom DiMaggio’s older brother… John… George… Jerry… something like that. He may have played a little AAA Baseball or something, too. I think that guy was only famous for marrying Marilyn Monroe and drinking lots of Coffee, though. Everyone knows the only reason the line in the song was not “Where have you gone Ted Williams?” was because the meter just was not right.)

The group of Scousers (calling themselves “the Beets-less” for some reason; perhaps the name “Turnips-more” was already taken) had a song called “I Am the Walrus”, wherein their nonsensical phrase was "Goo Goo G'Joob".

Truth be told, the Scousers song was released on November 24th, 1967 and New York boyos song was included in the movie "The Graduate" which was released on December 21st, 1967. However, they really couldn't have been influenced by one another as they would have had to be written well before the actual release and the similar sounding nonsensical phrases are just a rather silly coincidence.
 
...and with the return of one of my favourite shows... there's this too of course

 
This is one of my favourite (among a long list) Warren Zevon songs. Sure, everyone knows "Werewolves of London", but listen to some more of ol' Warren's stuff when you get the chance. I like this simple live version. That is David Lindley playing guitar with him. David Lindley had a band called El Rayo-X and even covered "Werewolves of London" on one of his albums. David also played several different instruments on a few of Warren's albums.

 
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